During a bout of anemia, this novel's protagonist daydreams of a theater performance in which he eats the body of a classmate. In a later scene in this novel, its protagonist laments his inability to "solve the mathematics of life" before watching a Red Cross nurse beg her mother for lunch. At the endof its novel's first chapter, the members of a procession bearing a portable shrine go crazy and t
During a bout of anemia, this novel's protagonist daydreams of a theater performance in which he eats the body of a classmate. In a later scene in this novel, its protagonist laments his inability to "solve the mathematics of life" before watching a Red Cross nurse beg her mother for lunch. At the endof its novel's first chapter, the members of a procession bearing a portable shrine go crazy and trample the garden owned by the protagonist's family. This novel's protagonist is disappointed when he's told that a picture of a knight is actually a depiction of (*) Joan of Arc, and later achieves his first ejaculation while masturbating to a replication of Guido Reni's Martyrdom of St. Sebastian. Its second chapter deals with its protagonist's love for his classmate Omi, while in its fourth section, the sight of a well-built gangster inspires that protagonist to abandon Sonoko. For 10 points, identify this work that depicts Kochan's struggles with his homosexuality, the semi-autobiographical first novel of Yukio Mishima.
During a bout of anemia, this novel's protagonist daydreams of a theater performance in which he eats the body of a classmate.
{Confessions} of a {Mask} [or {Kamen no Kokuhaku}]